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Love this: an 87-year-old doctor in Rushville, Illinois, who works seven days a week, still does house calls and charges $5 per visit. If the medical profession was more like him, we wouldn't even need the Affordable Care Act.

"I never went into medicine to make money," he says. "I wanted to be a doctor, taking care of people."

He works seven days a week, opening his office for an hour before church on Sundays. He has never taken a vacation and rarely left Schulyer County, except for the occasional medical conference.

If someone gently suggests that he cut back, his answer is always the same.

"What if someone needs me?"

Good man.

(Photo by Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune.)